Friday, April 4, 2008

Hi I'm Melanie Mullinax. I work as a communications specialist for Project HOPE, an international health education and humanitarian assistance organization. I spend my days writing about the lifesaving programs Project HOPE conducts in more than 36 countries around the world. For the next two weeks, I will be leaving behind the comforts of my Millwood, Va. office, my three children and husband that I adore and traveling with medicalvolunteers as they conduct a two week mission in West Africa to train health care professionals and treat patients.

My colleague and friend, Marisol Euceda just returned from a one month mission in Ghana and Liberia working alongside our volunteers, taking photographs,recording videos. telling the stories and writing daily blogs about the lifesaving work being conducted by our volunteers. I will continue Marisol's work with 14 new medical volunteers who will return to Liberia's JFK Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia early next week. This second rotation of volunteers will build upon the training provided by our first group of volunteers.

I will do my best to capture their important work and the volunteer experience in this blog.

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Project HOPE, an international health education and humanitarian assistance organization, works in more than 36 countries around the globe. In addition, since partnering with the U.S. Navy in early 2005 to provide tsunami relief, Project HOPE has participated in 18 humanitarian assistance and health education missions with nearly 1,000 HOPE volunteers. These missions have provided care to more than 400,000 people, offered health education to more than 100,000 and delivered $33 million in donated medicines and medical supplies. Please enjoy our blog as we document the successes and challenges of our work to provide Health Opportunities for People Everywhere.

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Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is an international health education and humanitarian assistance organization dedicated to providing lasting solutions to the world's most pressing health problems. This blog allows us to tell our story in a more personal way and comes directly from our volunteers, program managers and employees who are working in more than 36 countries to improve health and change lives, one person at a time. projecthope.org